Extended experience teaching 4th grade.
Current Preschool Teacher
English and Chinese Immersion teaching experience.
Lived in Taiwan for 1.5 years.
Taught at a school for the Deaf in Ghana, West Africa
Taught Physical Science at BYU
These meditation and mindfulness lesson plans and activities are perfect for the first week of preschool, prek or kindergarten. Children can learn to notice, be aware of themselves and others, slow down and breathe, and maintain a happy mind. Mindfulness helps children become more comfortable with their feelings and thoughts and feel safe and comfortable in the world around them. These lesson plans include many guided meditation scripts that are specifically written for young children. They ar
These greeting choices are made for a Chinese classroom and help you connect with your students and practice language! Students feel safe and respected in a classroom where the teacher takes time to say hello and goodbye to everyone. Included in this Resource:10 Greeting Choice Cards (with colorful or white background)Greeting choice cards are included in Traditional as well as Simplified Chinese. Choose Your Greeting SignChoose Your Goodbye SignYou May Also Enjoy:Chinese Clip Card BundleChinese
Daily greetings and goodbyes are a great way to connect with students one and one and create a classroom community of safety, love and respect. Hang these colorful greeting choice cards in the classroom or in the hallway and use them at the beginning and end of the day to connect with your students. Included in this resource: 11 Greeting Choice Image Cards (with colorful background and with white background)Choose your Greeting PosterGreeting Choices SignGoodbye Choices SIgn
My human body is the perfect theme for preschool, prek, tk, and kindergarten to learn about themselves, ask questions, observe, explore, and understand. These lesson plans and activities fit well with an all about me theme, my body, 5 senses or science theme. The activities are helpful for students to understand their world more by understanding themselves in their bodies. This resource is focused on "Circle Time" meaning these activities and lesson plans focus on group time and discussion, b
Are you preschool center activities running smoothly or are you wishing you had a better way to help children successfully choose activities without chaos and fighting? I wanted my preschool students to be able to choose centers freely, but there were problems with overcrowding and fighting over space and materials. With these center posters and tags, I can set how many students can safely play in each area at one time. Now students still choose activities freely, but they wear a colored tag
This coloring foldable is a great review and learning activity as you learn biomes and habitats. Students can practice reading the sight word predictable sentences "this is a..." as well as enjoy learning these science concepts. Included in this Resource:Foldable with page for: ocean, rainforest, island, desert, forest, and volcano.Colorful Cards with "I see a..." and many biome and landform images, including: ocean, rainforest, island, desert, mountains, canyon, pond, volcano, forest, and tun
PreK - 4th
Earth Sciences, English Language Arts, Environment
Help your preschool and kindergarten students practice the sight word "my" and reading simple repetitive sight word sentences with this reader. This goes great with a healthy body or human body theme and students get to trace the word my on each of the 6 pages of this book. Included in this resource: 6 Page sight word book with repetitive sentences "this is my..." ⭐ See more sales and freebies my FOLLOWING ME here on TPT⭐ See more ideas on Instagram @XiaoPandaPreschool
PreK - K
English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
This activity can be use in so many grade levels because it helps students understand how we fit in our world, but also is a great understanding of how maps works. Students can zoom in and zoom out on their place on our planet, in their country, state, city, street and home. This is also a fun foldable activity that can be displayed and shared to show and assess learning. This map activity includes pages have have clipart of the earth, the United States map, and different pages for each of th
These alphabet sorting cards are so useful and versatile for literacy and alphabet and phonics practice. You can use these alphabet cards and letter mats for sorting, collaging, and group activities at circle time. Included in this Resource:26 Alphabet Sorting Mats 16 Picture Letter Cards for every letter of the alphabet. (X and Z have 8 and 9 cards). Thats 400 alphabet letter sound cards!! ⭐ See more sales and freebies my FOLLOWING ME here on TPT⭐ See more ideas on Instagram @XiaoPandaPresch
PreK - K
English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness
Help your preschool or kindergarten students practice sight words is this fun way. You can feed the horse sight words with this activity. Carrots with sight words get "fed" to the horse as the child reads each sight word. Included in this Resource:Horse Head with Big Open Mouth (You'll need a small box or a tupperware to attach the horse onto) 60 Sight Word Carrots ⭐ See more sales and freebies my FOLLOWING ME here on TPT⭐ See more ideas on Instagram @XiaoPandaPreschool
It's time for your preschoolers to have fun counting fish. This one-to-one correspondence practice allows preschoolers to practice counting as they add various fish to a fish bowl. It's so fun for a pet theme, ocean theme, animal theme or fish theme in your preschool classroom! I love to add this activity to our math center. Included in this Resource:Fish Bowls with numbers 1-20 Small Fish Cards with 20 different varieties of fish ⭐ See more sales and freebies my FOLLOWING ME here on TPT⭐ See
There are 40 cards total (20 pairs), plus a set of three cards for if you have an odd number of students. These cards are such a fun way to quickly create pairs without fights, arguments, manipulations or kids feeling left out. It helps students to work with a variety of peers as well. Simply pass out the cards and have the students “find their partner”. The card itself shows what the matching photo should be. This product is in Traditional Chinese. If you'd like this product in Simplified Chine
There are 40 cards total (20 pairs), plus a set of three cards for if you have an odd number of students. These cards are such a fun way to quickly create pairs without fights, arguments, manipulations or kids feeling left out. It helps students to work with a variety of peers as well. Simply pass out the cards and have the students “find their partner”. The card itself shows what the matching photo should be. This product is in Simplified Chinese. If you'd like this product in Traditional Chine
There are 40 cards total (20 pairs), plus a set of three cards for if you have an odd number of students. These cards are such a fun way to quickly create pairs without fights, arguments, manipulations or kids feeling left out. It helps students to work with a variety of peers as well. Simply pass out the cards and have the students “find their partner”. The card itself shows what the matching photo should be. ⭐ See more sales and freebies my FOLLOWING ME here on TPT⭐ See more ideas on Instagra
Practice Syllables with your preschool kids by using this fun activity involving healthy body and doctor themes. The picture cards must be sorted into the correct first aid kit by how many syllables are in each word. The students can then record their answers on a recording sheet. This makes a great whole group, small group or even independent center activity! Included in this Resource:First-Aid Syllable Recording Sheet (bw and color)Three First Aid Kit Sorting Mats for 1, 2, or 3 syllable w
Practice rhyming with this fun bath and soap activity that works perfectly with a body theme, health and safety, or hygiene and hand washing theme you're teaching your preschool. There are four sets of rhyming sounds included, and four rhyming word/pictures that can be sorted into each tub. Included in this Resource: Four Bathtub Sorting Mats: _at, _in, _ug, _ap 16 Colored Soap Cards with Rhyming Words ⭐ See more sales and freebies my FOLLOWING ME here on TPT⭐ See more ideas on Instagram @XiaoP
PreK - K
English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness
These geoboard task and activity cards are perfect for adding math shape practice to your preschool classroom and your farm theme. They allow preschoolers to practice counting, shapes, visual discrimination, farm vocabulary and are a great fine motor practice activity. Included in this Resource:10 Color Geoboard Task Cards with Farm Themes - Cow - Goat - Barn - Shovel - Pig - Tractor - Hay Bale - Windmill - Horse - Chick You may also be interested in: Farmers Market Dramatic Play⭐ See more sa
This is a wonderfully fun alphabet letter sounds activity for a preschool classroom that is doing a farm theme, learning about chickens, doing spring time activities or doing easter activities! I love that the materials are so versatile -- I've come up with about 5-6 ideas for games and ways to use them (ideas written in the download) and think the kids have a blast with these letter sound games! Included in this Resource:26 Alphabet Eggs (with an image for each beginning sound of the alphabet)
This unit bundle has everything you could need for an amazing experience learning about the desert with your preschool, prek, or tk class! There are circle time lesson plans, songs, math practice, math, literacy, writing, and so much more. These preschool play activities will be a joy to use as you learn desert biome and desert animals with your students. It includes 165 pages of learning materials. Included in this Resource:Two weeks of lesson plansDiscussion Posters with Questions and Photo im
PreK - K
English Language Arts, Math, Phonics & Phonological Awareness
Learn about the Desert and desert animals while integrating math and literacy into your preschool, prek, or TK classroom. These activities are fun, hands-on ways for kids to practice letters, phonics, science, math, etc. in the context of the desert biome. What a fun adventure awaits you and your students as you dive into the desert together! Included in this Resource:1. Dot the syllables 2. Spider Life Cycle 3. Which Desert Character is Different? Activity Cards 4. Cactus Numbers with Ten Fra
Extended experience teaching 4th grade.
Current Preschool Teacher
English and Chinese Immersion teaching experience.
Lived in Taiwan for 1.5 years.
Taught at a school for the Deaf in Ghana, West Africa
Taught Physical Science at BYU
Teaching style
Hands-on learning creates whole class engagement. Teaching with enthusiasm and love for subject and students makes a happy teacher.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Tested "Advanced-High" for Chinese proficiency.
Graduated Magna Cum Laude from BYU
My own education history
BA in Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education with a minor in TESOL from Brigham Young University.
Additional biographical information
Currently a mom of two and running an in-home Chinese Immersion Preschool.
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